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... nature , and of the powers that rule it , which were entertained by a primæval race of nomades , the ancestors of all the chief European races . In this way not only have they succeeded in demonstrating what was but dimly surmised ...
... nature , and of the powers that rule it , which were entertained by a primæval race of nomades , the ancestors of all the chief European races . In this way not only have they succeeded in demonstrating what was but dimly surmised ...
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... natural pheno- mena and their supposed causes . So too all our legends of magic treasures concealed in lakes , swamps , or mountains , and coming to the light at stated periods , are found to have had a similar origin ; and the ...
... natural pheno- mena and their supposed causes . So too all our legends of magic treasures concealed in lakes , swamps , or mountains , and coming to the light at stated periods , are found to have had a similar origin ; and the ...
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... nature of my work has seldom allowed me to translate two or three consecutive sentences from Dr. Kuhn's elaborate treatise , yet I wish it to be fully understood that but for the latter the former could not have been written . I am the ...
... nature of my work has seldom allowed me to translate two or three consecutive sentences from Dr. Kuhn's elaborate treatise , yet I wish it to be fully understood that but for the latter the former could not have been written . I am the ...
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... natural consequence of the former , and it is to be hoped that our local archæologists will no longer be content to labour under either of them when once they have found what far - reaching knowledge may be extracted out of old wives ...
... natural consequence of the former , and it is to be hoped that our local archæologists will no longer be content to labour under either of them when once they have found what far - reaching knowledge may be extracted out of old wives ...
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... nature . But the mystery clears up more and more as we examine the subject on all sides by the light of kindred phenomena ; and in this way we are led on to many surprising and pregnant discoveries of the common elements out of which ...
... nature . But the mystery clears up more and more as we examine the subject on all sides by the light of kindred phenomena ; and in this way we are led on to many surprising and pregnant discoveries of the common elements out of which ...
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Agni ancient Apollo appears Aryans asvattha believed besoms Bhrigu bird burning called cattle chark churning clouds cuckoo custom dead death demon divine drink eagle earth elves England father fern fern-seed fire fire-bringers Freyja Frodi's furious host German Gervase of Tilbury giant goddess gods golden Greek Grimm haoma hare hazel heaven heavenly Hindus Holda hoopoe horn horses human Indo-European Indra kindled king known Kuhn ladybird latter legend lightning Mannhardt Maruts milk mountain mythical mythology myths nature needfire night Norse Odin origin palasa Perchta Picus Pitris plant popular Prometheus race Rig Veda Romans round rowan sacred Sanscrit says Schwartz sieve soma souls springwort stick stork storm story tell Thor thunderbolt tradition tree Vedas Vedic village werewolf Westf wheel whilst whitethorn wife wild hunt winds wish-rod witches Woden wolf wolves wood word wren Yggdrasil Zeus
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Page 95 - Ladybird, Ladybird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children will burn.
Page 152 - ... and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb.* Against this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefathers always kept a shrew-ash at hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus : — Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse was thrust in alive, and plugged in, no doubt, with several quaint incantations long since forgotten.
Page 101 - When first the Year, I heard the Cuckoo sing, And call with welcome Note the budding Spring, I straightway set a running with such Haste, Deb'rah, that won the Smock, scarce ran so fast. 'Till spent for lack of Breath, quite weary grown, Upon a rising Bank I sat adown...
Page 154 - ... that in former times they have been cleft asunder. These trees, when young and flexible, were severed and held open by wedges, while ruptured children stripped naked were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity.
Page 157 - For the purpose of regeneration, it is directed to make an image of pure gold of the female power of nature ; in the shape either of a woman or of a cow. In this statue the person to be regenerated is enclosed and dragged through the usual channel. As a statue of pure gold and of proper dimensions would be too expensive, it is sufficient to make an image of the sacred Yoni, through which the person to be regenerated .is to pass.
Page 97 - This lady-fly I take from off the grass, Whose spotted back might scarlet red surpass, " Fly, lady-bird, north, south, or east, or west, Fly where the man is found that I love best.
Page 283 - To wake the bounding stag, or guilty wolf, There oft is heard, at midnight, or at noon, Beginning faint, but rising still more loud, And nearer, voice of hunters, and of hounds, And horns, hoarse-winded, blowing far and keen :— Forthwith the hubbub multiplies ; the gale Labours with wilder...
Page 151 - At the south corner of the Plestor, or area, near the church, there stood, about twenty years ago, a very old grotesque hollow pollard-ash, which for ages had been looked on with no small veneration as a shrew-ash.
Page 68 - They kindle a fire, and dress a repast of eggs and milk in the consistence of a custard. They knead a cake of oatmeal, which is toasted at the embers against a stone.
Page 52 - ... their fire, they then sacrificed a heifer, cutting in pieces and burning, while yet alive, the diseased part, they then lighted their own hearths from the pile and ended by feasting on the remains, words of incantation were repeated by an old man from Morven, who came over as master of the ceremonies, and who continued speaking all the time the fire was being raised. This man was living a beggar at Bellochroy. asked to repeat the spell, he said, the sin of repeating it once had brought him to...